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Digital Collections
Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
The Wisconsin Historical Society offers an ever-growing digital collection. Digitized materials reflect the full range of items in the collections including photographs, letters, newsletters, films, posters, architectural drawings, menus, and ephemera.
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The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
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Accessing Collections
The vast majority of the items in our collections are not online. The Society owns thousands of archival collections viewable in our Archives reading room. To view and conduct research in our collections, visit us in person.
Splash Party
August 1, 1970
To escape the heat, teenage girls have a water fight in the backyard pool they built.
Water Skiing
Woman skiing behind a boat, with a man in the foreground standing in the boat near a Johnson outboard motor.
Grand Rapids Municipal Swimming Pool
1920
View across the water near the shoreline of the municipal swimming pool. The pool may have been along the Wisconsin River with slides and sandy beaches. A large group of bathers are playing in the ...
Playing in Canoes on a Lake
Two women try to knock each other off of their canoes while standing and swinging brooms at each other.
Women in Motorboat
1941
Two bathing suit-clad women demonstrating their Evinrude motorboat on a Wisconsin lake.
